
Cortex
CGP Grey and Myke Hurley are both independent content creators. Each episode, they get together to discuss their working lives. Hosted by CGP Grey and Myke Hurley.
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Nov 17, 2015 • 2h 4min
17: Dialing Down
Grey takes time away from the Internet, Myke takes time away from Twitter, and they both get an iPad Pro.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit! Dialing Down — CGP Grey Analog(ue) #65: I Was Shaking - Relay FM Analog(ue) #66: The Museum Of Me - Relay FM Grey's 'Offline Phone' Buffer - A Smarter Way to Share on Social Media H.I. #38: The F-Word — Hello Internet I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet | The Verge iPad Pro - Apple iPad Pro Review: A New Canvas – MacStories iPad Pro Accessories Review: Apple Pencil, Smart Keyboard, Logitech CREATE Keyboard – MacStories Connected #65: The iPad Pro Review - Relay FM How to identify keyboard localizations - Apple Support Fleksy Keyboard - GIFs, Custom Extensions, and Themes

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Nov 2, 2015 • 2h 4min
16: Structural Trust
Myke makes an official statement, Grey drives a truck across Europe, and they both discuss sharing responsibilities in their business.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit! Cookie Box - Block obtrusive EU cookie notices from the web on the App Store 1Blocker - Block ads, tracking scripts, anything on the App Store The 'Processing Progress Bar' Euro Truck Simulator 2 Perhaps the Most Perfect Video Game for Podcasts - YouTube Question About Using a Wheel on a Mac with ETS2 and Windows VM : trucksim Threes! on the App Store A Conference About Building Businesses | Release Notes Launch Center Pro - Shortcut launcher and Today widget on the App Store Hello Internet Animated - YouTube Iteration — CGP Grey Wunderlist | To-do list, Reminders, Errands Trello Kanban - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Agile software development - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Six Degrees of Myke Hurley Dialing Down — CGP Grey

Oct 19, 2015 • 1h 50min
15: Tempest in a Teapot
Myke explains beard oil, Grey mourns the loss of his iMac, and they both discuss the moral minefield of ad blocking.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit! A Conference About Building Businesses | Release Notes The Podcasting-verse Mind Map Incomparable Radio Theater - a podcast from The Incomparable Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Siracusa - The State of the File System - Mac OS X 10.7 Lion review | Ars Technica 5by5 | Hypercritical #56: Belt and Suspenders HFS Plus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cortex Podcast - YouTube H.I. #32: YouTube Half-Assery — Hello Internet YouTube Processing: Explained! - MKBHD - YouTube UK Star Wars release date brought forward - BBC Newsbeat 30 Rock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arrested Development (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Content Blockers - iOS 9 Review – MacStories Marco Arment's article about removing Peace from the App Store Support CGP Grey creating Youtube videos Club MacStories – MacStories Ghostery Google Announces Customer Match - Search Engine Land CGP Grey Hoodie

Oct 5, 2015 • 1h 32min
14: Conflicted About Email
Myke makes judgments about Grey's musical choices, Grey explains how he is working with his personal assistant to manage email, and they both lament the current state of email apps.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit! Slow Cortex Six Windows Startup Sounds, Slowed 4000% by ideoforms | Free Listening on SoundCloud Top Four #4: Worst Weezer Singles - Relay FM Weezer - El Scorcho (Director's Cut) - YouTube Upgrade #56: The Migration Experience - Relay FM Rachel Platten - Fight Song (Official Video) - YouTube Every Open Eye (Special Edition) by CHVRCHES on iTunes Pitchfork Music Festival Paris Pixar Development Team Tests iPad Pro and Apple Pencil – MacStories What does “Spotlight Suggestions” turn off? - alexwlchan Grey's Homescreen during the email app experiment Due — Reminders, Countdown Timers on the App Store Mailbox Microsoft Outlook on the App Store CloudMagic Email on the App Store Inbox by Gmail – A new email app that works for you on the App Store Spark - Smart Email App for Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud and others on the App Store Dispatch: Email meets GTD with TextExpander snippets on the App Store Mail Pilot 2: Email inbox simplified on the Mac App Store Mail Pilot 2 for iPhone and iPad review | iMore Byword on the App Store nvNotes - Note Taking & Writing App on the App Store Sleep Cycle power nap on the App Store

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Sep 19, 2015 • 1h 47min
13: Trail of Tears
Myke is jet-lagged, but Grey wants to know all about XOXO. Grey is intrigued about the iPad Pro, and Myke wants to talk about iOS 9. Grey shares a theory about the 16GB iPhone, Myke listens.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit Cortex Jingle Slowed 10,000x by itmightbekyle | SoundCloud Lingua franca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Big Love - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rule of Two - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki XOXO Festival dooce® | I'm Heather B. Armstrong. This is my website. XOXO Festival - YouTube CGP Grey's Email List — CGP Grey iOS 9 - Apple iOS 9: The MacStories Review, Created on iPad – MacStories How to Turn off News in Spotlight in iOS 9 — CGP Grey Editorial on the App Store Byword on the App Store Mailbox on the App Store Brief History of the Royal Family - YouTube iPad Pro - Apple Apple Pencil - Apple Amazon: Triangle Pencil Grips iPad - Compare Models - Apple iPhone 6s - Apple The Talk Show ✪: Ep. 123, Live From WWDC 2015 With Phil Schiller 16GB is a Bad User Experience - David Smith

Sep 7, 2015 • 1h 34min
12: The Rule of Two
Grey describes the 'Rule of Two', Myke wants to know how the 'UK explained' video became a success, and they both discuss Netflix's hiring policies, branding, and ASMR videos.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Buy a Cortex T-shirt and support the show! Discuss this episode on Reddit Paulstretch PaulStretch: An Interview with Paul Nasca | Mat Jarvis Windows Startup Sounds (slowed 4000%) by ideoforms | SoundCloud Jurassic Park Theme (1000% Slower) by birdfeeder | SoundCloud Amazon.com: Logitech MX Master Wireless Mouse Amazon.com : Xiaomi Mi Band Big Pharma on Steam Episode 647: Hard Work Is Irrelevant : Planet Money : NPR The Netflix slide deck Spencer's thoughts on motivations Grey's channel ad We have a new name: In a Nutshell - YouTubeKurzgesagt rebrands!
ASMR. Sounds that feel good Autonomous sensory meridian response - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Why can I make a rumbling noise by tensing something inside my ears? - Reddit 4 Huge Youtube Channels ANYONE Could Have Made - YouTube Origin Stories, episode #6 of The Cracked Podcast on Earwolf Cultural bias, episode #7 of The Cracked Podcast on EarwolfThis is the one with the Prince story.
Hi United Kingdom: I made a video explaining all your delightful complexity in under five minutes. What do you think? - r/unitedkingdomGrey's initial post on the UK subreddit.
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Aug 28, 2015 • 1h 34min
11: 0% Entertaining
This week Grey and Myke get very excited about their new computer mice, before sharing more of their views on if it's easier to become an internet personality today, and what you need to do to get there.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Buy a Cortex T-shirt and support the show! Discuss the episode on Reddit Cortex on YouTube Amazon.com: Wacom Intuos Pen and Touch Small Tablet Amazon.com: Logitech MX Master Wireless Mouse Logitech MX Master Review! - YouTube Vmax77's Mind Map of Cortex 010 TWSBI Mini Fountain Pen - Classic Pilot Iroshizuku Kon-peki (50ml Bottle) The Pen Addict - Relay FM Alienturnedhuman's comment on Reddit Vsauce - YouTube Kurzgesagt - YouTube VidStatsX.com Amazon.com: Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone The Flop House MKBHD's first video How To Start a YouTube Channel - Veritasium - YouTube Shia LaBeouf motivational speech - "Just Do It" - YouTube SwiftKey Keyboard + Emoji on the App Store on iTunes TextExpander 3 + custom keyboard on the App Store on iTunes Emoji++ : The Fast Emoji Keyboard on the App Store on iTunes Sunrise Calendar - An Outlook App on the App Store on iTunes Fleksy Keyboard - GIFs, Stickers and Emoji on the App Store on iTunes A playlist of 10 hour long songs on YouTube Makin' Bacon Pancakes 10 HOUR VERSION! - YouTube The song that doesn't end - 10 Hour version - YouTube Justin Bieber 800% Slower - YouTube

Aug 14, 2015 • 1h 46min
10: Zero Artistic Skills
This time Grey and Myke tackle various ways to get audiobooks in to Overcast, discuss the creation of Alphabet, and cover the tools and processes Grey uses to create the animation for his videos.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit Dungeon Keeper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cities: Skylines - Paradox Interactive War For The Overworld ROCKET LEAGUE - Official Site Bamboo Pad, wireless | Wacom Alternote — note-taking app for Mac. Alternative Evernote client for Mac with Markdown support An 'Adina Mind Map'A mind map created for a marketing campaign to raise awareness for eating disorders. Warning: content potentially triggering for eating disorder sufferers.
Lukas' script for automatically hosting a podcast in your Dropbox public folder JustCast - Publish your Podcast with Dropbox in minutes Podmash Libsyn - Podcast Hosting Services Simplecast - Podcast Hosting Made Incredibly Easy. Grey's (kind of) current Home screen Myke's Workflow to create an Audible app shortcut An example of the Apple Music errors Grey was seeing Overcast Official Google Blog: G is for Google Alphabet Introducing Spot - Boston Dynamics - YouTube Petman Tests Camo - YouTube Nest Thermostat Teardown - learn.sparkfun.com Meet the Nest Thermostat | Nest Meet Nest Cam | Nest CGP Grey - YouTube The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained - YouTube Zero Punctuation Complete Series - YouTube Apple - Keynote for Mac Apple - GarageBand for Mac Apple - iMovie for Mac Phaseofplay.netMyke's brother's blog.
Inkscape OmniGraffle - diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad - The Omni Group Apple - Logic Pro X Apple - Final Cut Pro X Wacom Intuos Pen Graphics Tablet: Amazon.co.uk Not the Confederate Flag - YouTubeThis link will open the video at the specific time for the joke Myke enjoys.
Support CGP Grey creating Youtube videos Humans Need Not Apply - YouTube Las Vegas isn't Las Vegas - YouTube Politics in the Animal Kingdom: Single Transferable Vote - YouTube Hello Internet Animated - YouTube Cortex Sticker — Relay FM Amazon.com: Logitech Unifying receiver for mouse and keyboard: Computers & Accessories

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Aug 7, 2015 • 1h 26min
9: Draft A Day
This time Grey has a Home screen disaster and Myke admits how he plays Prison Architect, before going on to talk about writing scripts for Youtube videos, and their thoughts on outlining and mind mapping.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit Cortex Sticker — Relay FM Store — Relay FM Grey discovering the orange Audible icon Grey's current Home screen arrangement Steven's Dropbox to Huffduffer Workflow Workflow | Powerful automation made simple. Huffduffer Batman (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Prison Architect by Introversion Software Prison Architect will break out of jail and arrive on iPad and Android tablets this October | Prison Architect upcoming | iPad | Pocket Gamer Knitting Simulator 2014 | KARA STONE Euro Truck Simulator Euro truck simulator 3 - YouTube Evernote Editorial for iOS Byword • Simple and efficient text editor for Mac, iPhone and iPad. iThoughts — toketaWare Humans Need Not Apply - YouTube Mind map - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Outline (list) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Monty Python - Dead Parrot - YouTube So Good They Can't Ignore You: Cal Newport: Amazon.com On Writing: 10th Anniversary Edition: A Memoir of the Craft: Stephen King: Amazon.com iPad Air Smart Cover - Apple Review: Logitech Tablet Keyboard for iPad – MacStories Wireless Backlit Keyboard for Mac, iPad, iPhone + Apple TV - Logitech

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Jul 24, 2015 • 1h 30min
8: An Episode Out Of Time
This week Grey and Myke talk about how they deal with travelling, before answering important questions like; 'what Coffee does Grey drink?', 'what advice would you give for someone that wants to be self employed?', and 'Kirk or Picard?'.
This episode of Cortex is sponsored by:
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Links and Show Notes: Support Cortex with a Relay FM Membership Discuss this episode on Reddit H.I. #26: Brady Had Dinner With Darth Vader — Hello Internet OmniFocus - task management for Mac, iPad, and iPhone - The Omni Group Clear — Award-Winning Super-Simple, Clutter-Free To-Do App · Realmac Software Reeder Instapaper Nuzzel - News From Your Friends Tweetbot for iPhone — Tapbots Twitterrific: Making Twitter Extra Terrific James T. Kirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean-Luc Picard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kathryn Janeway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Pen Addict - Relay FMMyke's Pen and Paper Podcast
Field Notes Iteration — CGP Grey So Good They Can't Ignore You - Cal Newport - Amazon.com How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - Scott Adams - Amazon.com HA HA! Business! - Imgur